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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 8

On the authority of an old wiseacre, "the shoemaker's'wife goes the worst shod," arid it is well known that lawyers frequently die intestate, says a northern Writer. A brilliant accountant of our acquaintance, who can put his finger on the missing halfpenny for a firm dealing in hundreds of thousands, seems hopelessly incompetent to understand his own domestic accounts. And so MiThomas Ray Sidey, M.P., the perpetrator of Summertime, arrived at the State luncheon to Mr Amery in Wellington an hour late! His fellow members rained queries on him, the chief of which was, "Did'you forget to put your watch on, Tom?'* The meticulous Sidey, responsible for a change of habit in a growing nation, actually blushed behind his fourihch collar. .